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The Home for Health Care Advocacy Professionals

Whether you’re a leader looking to train your volunteers for an upcoming fly-in or a professional seeking resources on how to build an omnichannel policy campaign, we’ve got what you’re looking for! Built by award-winning policy advocates, we offer online learning courses, a library of downloadable resources and a thriving community of advocates. The best part, almost all of it is free!

Online Advocacy Course

Leave the fundamentals to us.

The Advocacy Academy is the ideal way to train your volunteers. The advocates gain access to a professional, convenient, learning experience, and you save time and gain confidence that your volunteers are prepared.

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Downloadable Resources

We offer the following free tools to help you build and execute a winning government affairs strategy.

Community Meet-ups

Advocacy is about building relationships. That’s why we are designing programs where professional health care advocates can meet face-to-face.

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What You Get With a Free Account

Art of Advocacy Course

We adapted our webinar series on creating winning campaigns to a four-part online training course designed for any professional looking to break through the noise to advance policy change. Topics in this course include:

  • Maximizing Your Impact: Integrating Communications and GR for Effective Advocacy
  • Choosing Your Battles: Prioritizing Your Advocacy Issues
  • Thought Partnership: Building Allies
  • Identifying the Right Partners: The Influencer Index

Downloadable Resources

As full-time public affairs and strategic communications consultants, we have created proprietary tools to help clients address specific challenges. A few tools you will be able to access with your free account include:

  • The Influencer Index: A Stakeholder Mapping Methadology
  • Issue Prioritization Rubric: Key Questions To Guide Planning an Issue Campaign
  • Health Policy Profiles: Deep Dives into the Health Care Stances of Newest Members of Congress

By creating a free account, you will be receiving updates and resources from Advocacy Accelerator, taking an important step in supercharging your advocacy efforts. If you have any trouble creating a free account or accessing the free content, please email hello@advocacyaccelerator.us.

FAQs

The Advocacy Accelerator is a hub for professional advocates to learn from one another and our team of seasoned government relations professionals. We offer online and in-person opportunities and free resources and tools built by award-winning policy advocates to empower bold and better health care advocacy. The three offerings of the Advocacy Accelerator are:

  1. Online Courses:
    We offer two virtual courses—
    • The Art of Advocacy—our free four-part course for professional advocates to help them prioritize and advance their policy issues
    • The Advocacy Academy—a low-cost 60-minute course to teach nonprofessional advocates/volunteers the basics of advocacy so organizations can focus more on training their advocates about their specific policy issues
  2. Resources: Downloadable free resources ranging from CURA’s stakeholder mapping process to our issue prioritization rubric and Capitol Corner newsletter
  3. Community: Opportunities to meet with other professional health care advocates

The audience for this community is professionals who work in the health care advocacy space. Although most of our content is related to health policy advocacy, there are resources here for professionals and executives who operate campaigns related to patient advocacy more broadly, such as disease awareness, peer support, research, etc.

Side note, we have a particular soft spot for strategic communications professionals and senior executives who find themselves thrust into policy advocacy and whose only recent experience with government is watching HBO’s Veep. Policy and patient advocacy provides rich opportunities to build your brand reputation, but it can be intimidating for communicators to know how and where to engage. We can help! Contact us at hello@advocacyaccelerator.us.

We have three types of offerings:

  1. Online Courses:
    We offer two virtual courses—
    • The Art of Advocacy—our free four-part course for professional advocates to help them prioritize and advance their policy issues
    • The Advocacy Academy—a low-cost 60-minute course to teach nonprofessional advocates/volunteers the basics of advocacy so organizations can focus more on training their advocates about their specific policy issues
  2. Resources: Downloadable free resources ranging from CURA’s stakeholder mapping process to our issue prioritization rubric and Capitol Corner newsletter
  3. Advocacy Accelerator Community: Opportunities to meet with other professional health care advocates

Almost all of the resources on this page are free to access. Once you provide your email address, you can access the resources and apply to be a part of the Advocacy Accelerator community. The one exception is the Advocacy Academy, our 60-minute 9-lesson course designed to prepare your volunteers or nonprofessional advocates to share their experience with policymakers. This is available via subscription and the price varies depending on how many seats you need.

The Advocacy Accelerator is powered by CURA Strategies. We would love to hear your feedback or answer your questions. Please contact us at hello@advocacyaccelerator.us.